Smashed bins
Whilst travelling along Sapphire Coast Drive on October 3 at approx 10pm, I came across a complete mess just on the Bega side of Bournda Rd, strewn across the entire road. It appeared that someone had smashed into two full otto bins, scattering all the contents, including many glass bottles, which were broken, across both lanes of the road, causing a dangerous issue.
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Why did you do this, why didn’t you bother to clean up the mess you created. This could have caused a major accident, but you obviously didn’t care.
However, I do want to give a big thank you to the electrician from Tathra who stopped to help clean up the mess and to the nurse who also stopped after a long hard day to assist any injuries that she thought may have happened (my bad, I forgot their names).
There are still some great people around, thanks again to them, but not to the idiot that did the damage.
Gordon Gapes, Tura Beach
No fireworks
So it’s approaching that time of year when council, in their wisdom, is having fireworks at Fishpen to celebrate the end of 2018.
For those of us who live close to Fishpen and feel like a dose of lithium, strontium, barium, sulfur dioxide, heavy metals, nitric oxide, toxic chemicals and the fallout for days afterwards, we have our council to be proud of. We pay our rates and then volunteer to be poisoned under the banner of fun. By all means, let’s have live music, food stalls and the like.
When one realises the cost of fireworks to our environment, water quality, wildlife and our beloved pets, then one can only despair at the logic behind such an irresponsible event. Animal shelters dread these times as many of our innocent animals are exposed to these stupid, mindless games that humans play. Roads become more dangerous with wildlife fleeing in panic. And the cost in money terms?
How can any local government actually justify this? Further information can be found at
Marianne Kambouridis, Millingandi
Australasia
The Nethercote Community Hall was a derelict building not so very long ago. Over many years of fundraising and voluntary labour, together with federal grant assistance, it reopened in 2008.
The process also helped to build a community. People came together to help at fundraising events and got to know each other during the rebuilding weekend working bees.
The hall is home to highly popular and well attended regular events including the Nethercote Music Factory, Seasonal Produce Markets and yoga classes, as well as being the most regularly rented out hall in the shire for special occasions.
However, the hall always was and will remain a council asset. Community and council working together.
The Nethercote community is about to celebrate 10 years since reopening the hall, by holding a “Decadance” on October 13 when it is also hoped to raise funds to enable us to build a deck extension (all welcome - please join us! Contact Caroline Winnel on 0448 200 347 for tickets).
This made me remember that when the Australasia was first for sale and community meetings were held, Nethercote was held up as an example of what could be achieved.
Now it is back on the agenda perhaps council would revisit that.
Grants are now available - please let’s see community and council work together to achieve another wonderful community asset.
I would urge everyone to sign the petition https://www.change.org/p/seek-grant-funding-to-complete-the-works-on-the-hotel-australasia-building-in-eden
Karen Lott, Nethercote
